The new benchmark' and 'set to become the reference recordings' - these are a couple of the verdicts on the new Carl Nielsen cycle from...continue...
Recording information: Stockholm Concert Hall, Sweden (01/2013/05/2014)....continue...

Yevgeny Sudbin has already demonstrated his great affinity with the music of the composers united here: in 2007, his Scriabin solo recital (BIS-1568) garnered universal...continue...
Recording information: Grieghallen, Bergen, Norway (11/2013)....continue...

On their latest disc, the Danish-Swedish Sirena Recorder Quartet treats us to a wide-ranging selection from their regular concert repertoire. Now & Then illustrates the...continue...
Recording information: Vestkirken, Ballerup, Denmark (12/2013)....continue...

Since its creation in 1791, Mozart's Requiem has become one of the truly iconic works in the history of music. A prime reason for this...continue...
Recording information: Kobe Shoin Women's University Chapel, Japan (12/2013)....continue...

In Venice in the 18th century, Christmas was celebrated as only Venetians know how to celebrate: according to one account, more wax was burnt to...continue...
Recording information: Kosciól Ewangelicki sw. Jana s Mikolowie, Nikolów, Pola (10/2013)....continue...

Viktor Suslin ((1942 - 2012) began his activity as a composer in the Soviet Union during the 1960s and in 1975 formed the improvisational ensemble...continue...
Recording information: Villa Elisabeth, Berlin, Germany (04/2013/10/2013)....continue...

Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata for Piano no 1 in F minor; Sonata for Piano no 2 in A major, Op. 2 no 2; Sonata for Piano no 3 in C major, Op. 2 no 3; Sonata for Piano no 19 in G minor, Op. 49 no 1; Son...
Performers:
Brautigam, Ronald

The 32 Piano Sonatas by Ludwig van Beethoven are often referred to as the ‘New Testament’ of the keyboard literature, following on the ‘Old Testament’...continue...
Recording information: Österåker Church, Sweden....continue...

Both the William Walton and Paul Hindemith Cello Concerti are expansive three-movement pieces employing large forces, and, in the case of the Walton, a vibraphone,...continue...
Recording information: Musikaliska (the former Academy of Music). Stockholm, S (07/2013); Sala Sao Paulo, Brazil (07/2013); Musikaliska (the former Academy of Music). Stockholm, S (08/2013); Sala Sao ...continue...

In Astor Piazzolla’s tango nuevo are all the ingredients of his life – his love from adolescence for Classical music, his fascination with jazz and...continue...
Recording information: Musikaliska, Stockholm, Sweden (12/2013)....continue...

Johannes Brahms’ Second Piano Sonata, which opens pianist Jonathan Plowright’s disc, is the work of a young man eager to make his mark both as...continue...
Recording information: Potton Hall, Saxmundham, Suffolk, England (01/2014)....continue...

On this disc, Prélude a` l’apres-midi d’un faune – possibly Claude Debussy’s most popular work for orchestra – is framed by two of his greatest...continue...
Recording information: Esplande Concert Hall, Singapore....continue...

Clemency, a chamber opera for five singers and string orchestra in one act; composed 2009-10 and the third operatic collaboration between composer James MacMillan and...continue...
Recording information: Artists for Humanity EpiCenter, Boston, Massachusetts, (2013-02-06_2013-02-07&2013-)....continue...

On the final disc of a complete cycle, Thomas Dausgaard and the Swedish Chamber Orchestra offer Franz Schubert's first two symphonies as well as two...continue...
Recording information: Örebro Concert Hall, Sweden (06/2013)....continue...

Widely regarded as one of today's most important composers of orchestral music, Kalevi Aho has written fifteen symphonies to date, but also twenty concertos. Indeed,...continue...
Recording information: Korundi House of Culture, Rovaniemi, Finland (01/2013)....continue...

Nowell, Nowel, Noel - on their new release, Sing thee Nowell, New York Polyphony sings of, and to, the birth of Christ in a typically...continue...
Recording information: Chapel at The American Boychoir School, Princeton, New (03/2014)....continue...

Set up for propaganda purposes as a 'model Jewish settlement', the Theresienstadt concentration camp has become a symbol of the immense cynicism that the Nazi...continue...
Recording information: Eglise Evangélique Saint Marcel, Paris, France....continue...

Within the output of Sofia Gubaidulina, solo and chamber music occupies a position of prominence; she has written more than eighty such works. One of...continue...
Recording information: Studio 2, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Munich, Germany (06/2013)....continue...

It was during the winter of 1900 - 01 that Elgar began to sketch what he hoped would turn into a symphony - his first....continue...
Recording information: Stockholm Concert Hall, Sweden....continue...

Composed over a period of fourteen years, John Pickard's Gaia Symphony and Eden are scored for the standard 'British' brass band, with expanded percussion in...continue...
Recording information: Eidsvåg Church, Bergen, Norway (2013)....continue...

Jean Sibelius is best known for his seven symphonies and violin concerto - two genres usually thought of as 'absolute music'. But in 1894, well...continue...
Recording information: Sibelius Hall, Lahti, Finland (11/2006/10/2007)....continue...

'Finland has Sibelius, Norway has Grieg and Denmark Nielsen - so what about Sweden?' This question, often put to Swedish musicians and music-lovers, is one...continue...
Recording information: deSingel, Antwerp, Belgium (03/2013)....continue...

A musician of uncommon versatility, Gunnar Idenstam happily acknowledges the influences of Swedish folk music and dance as well as the symphonic rock of the...continue...
Recording information: Église Saint-Martin de Dudelange, Luxembourg (09/2013)....continue...

In their recital of twentieth-century music for oboe and piano, Alexei Ogrintchouk and his father Leonid present five works largely inspired by outstanding oboists and...continue...
Recording information: Musikaliska, Stockholm, Sweden (08/2013)....continue...

Andrzej Panufnik (1914-1991) once wrote 'Music gets its eternal beauty from an ideal balance of emotion and intellect.' Although Panufnik is primarily known as a...continue...
Recording information: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England (09/2013)....continue...

The two works on this disc perfectly illustrate a particular type of secular cantata, the so-called 'dramma per musica'. In such works the libretto is...continue...
Recording information: MS&AD Shirakawa Hall, Nagoya, Japan (07/2013)....continue...

It has been claimed that Beethoven's three String Trios, op. 9, and Mozart's Divertimento, form the pinnacle of their genre, destined to be almost supplanted...continue...
Recording information: Musikaliska (the former Academy of Music). Stockholm, S (06/2013/07/2013)....continue...